Ian Selley

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Ian Selley
Personal information
Full name Ian Selley
Date of birth June 14, 1974 (age 32)
Place of birth    Chertsey, England
Height 5'9"
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Woking
Number 7
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1992-1997
1996
1997-2000
2000-2003
2002
2002
2003-		 Arsenal
→ Southend United (loan)
Fulham
Wimbledon
→ Southend United (loan)
→ Southend United (loan)
Woking		 42 (0)
4 (0)
3 (0)
4 (0)
14 (0)
11 (0)
102 (19)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 23:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Ian Selley (born June 14, 1974 in Weybridge) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Woking.

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[edit] Playing career

[edit] Arsenal

Selley joined Arsenal in 1990 as a trainee and won a South East Counties League title medal and Floodlit Cup Winners medal in his first season. He made his first-team debut at the age of eighteen in a 1-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in September 1992. Selley played nine games for Arsenal in the 1992-93 season and fifteen games in the 1993-94 season. Injuries to several key players gave Selley his most famous appearance for the club, when he was the youngest player on the field in Arsenal's 1994 European Cup Winners' Cup Final victory over Parma. He had previously been a substitute in Arsenal's 1993 Coca Cola Cup final victory over Sheffield Wednesday, the first trophy in their Cup double that season.

In February 1995 Selley broke his leg playing against Leicester City, which forced him out for the entire 1996-97 season. Despite reports that he would be a part of Arsène Wenger's new side he was sold to Fulham in 1997 for £500,000, after playing 42 games for Arsenal.

[edit] Fulham and Wimbledon

Unfortunately for him, he broke his leg a second time after playing just three games for Fulham and moved to Wimbledon in 2000. However Wimbledon were facing financial difficulties, and a bonus payment clause in his contract meant the club couldn't always afford to play him. Selley started just one game with 3 substitute appearances for Wimbledon.

[edit] Southend United

In February 2002 he was loaned to Southend United where he enjoyed more success, playing fourteen games in the 2000-01 season. He went on loan to Southend again in the 2002-03 season, playing 11 times.

[edit] Woking

Selley signed for Woking in 2003 and has since become an integral member of the team. Despite an injury against Kettering Town in the FA Trophy in 2004 which kept him out for ten games, he has featured consistently and earned a reputation as a dead-ball specialist - he converted six goals from the spot in the 2003-04 season and two free kicks. At the start of the 2005-06 season his form was rather indifferent and it was revealed that he was recovering from a hernia operation. This has not prevented him from playing and he has signed another one-year deal to keep him at Woking and provide much needed experience as the club seek a play-off place for promotion from the Football Conference to the Football League

Despite his injuries, Selley has become known as a player who does not shirk tackles. He picked up nine yellow cards in his time at Southend and has shown no signs of lessening the physical side of his game, picking up ten bookings in his first season at Woking, six the season after that and four so far this season. All of Selley's league goals have come in his time at Woking, an impressive return for a midfielder of 19 in 89 games and two in four FA Cup games, as of March 5, 2006. He is currently one of Woking's best players. However, Selley is currently injured and is unlikely to return until next year.

[edit] External links

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